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Summary

Bringing together a range of core texts into one volume, this acclaimed anthology offers the definitive resource in culture, media, and communication. The revised edition updates topics including race, culture, and new media, while retaining its original emphasis on the giant thinkers and "makers" of the field: from Gramsci, Bourdieu and Adorno, to Chomsky, Stuart Hall, and Angela McRobbie. New contributions include essays from Althusserrs"s classic Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses through to Henry Jenkins, and a completely new section on Globalization and Social Movements. Each section features a substantial critical introduction, short introductions and full bibliographic citations to facilitate student and teacher engagement with this multidisciplinary and dynamic area of study.

Author Biography

Meenakshi Gigi Durham is Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. She has published widely on feminist media studies and related critical approaches, especially those of race, class, and sexuality.

Douglas M. Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and is the author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including Television and the Crisis of Democracy; The Persian Gulf TV War; Media Culture; Media Spectacle and September 11, Terror War, and the Dangers of the Bush Legacy.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition

viii

Adventures in Media and Cultural Studies: Introducing the KeyWorks

ix

Douglas M. Kellner

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

Part I: Culture, Ideology, and Hegemony

1

(88)

Introduction to Part I

3

(6)

The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas

9

(4)

Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels

(i) History of the Subaltern Classes; (ii) The Concept of ``Ideology''; (iii) Cultural Themes: Ideological Material

13

(5)

Antonio Gramsci

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

18

(23)

Walter Benjamin

The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception

41

(32)

Max Horkheimer

Theodor W. Adorno

The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article

73

(6)

Jurgen Habermas

Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation)

79

(10)

Louis Althusser

Part II: Social Life and Cultural Studies

89

(106)

Introduction to Part II

91

(8)

(i) Operation Margarine; (ii) Myth Today

99

(8)

Roland Barthes

The Medium is the Message

107

(10)

Marshall McLuhan

The Commodity as Spectacle

117

(5)

Guy Debord

Introduction: Instructions on How to Become a General in the Disneyland Club